So this all started when I wanted to install my custom daemon on my Beaglebone Black running Debian using update-rc.d mydaemon defaults 97 like I've done many times during it's development on my Mint ...

I was trying to copy files from one directory to another while keeping permissions for the files. The files in question where part of a rootfs built for armhf as I was trying to get 14.04 to run on my ...

I have bunch of binaries built for the SSE4 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 4) instruction set. I’d like to run them on a processor that has no support for the instruction set. It is natural that I get the ...

I want to try to use ping to detect if a server goes down. So the idea was to have something ping forever, and then if ping ever timed out( -W flag) it would return and I'd be able to detect it. But ...

I'm extremely new to linux, so please help me out if you can! I have read many of the posts about managing/monitoring servers using SSH and Screen, but have not found anything regarding my particular ...

Is there a way to define a dns server for a specific domain?
I'm setting up a develop machine with an amp stack and i want to redirect all urls with a specific domain (i.e. project.dev) to 127.0.0.1.
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I have to send a program over to China which accesses a server inside our network. This program updates SQL records and stores large amounts of data on the status of products beings tested, on this ...

On Windows I can use NTFS drive compression to save heaps of disk space; usually 30%, often much more. It also improves read and write speeds at the cost of higher CPU usage; which isn’t an argument ...

I recently upgraded (with apt-get dist-upgrade) my Kubuntu and Lubuntu linux boxes, and now every time I start one of these machines, I get this message:
tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified
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I have small NAS working as file server. In work we (me and 2 colleagues) are using QGIS with attached large raster files (~1GB TIFFs), 2 or 3 on project. Performance of this solution is poor, so I ...

I work for a reseach institution where many colleagues work on many different software projects, each with own dependencies, version management etc.
We'd like to improve our software culture and make ...

I just noticed what seems to me a strange behaviour in mod_pagespeed (latest) on a Linux box with Apache installation.
I have domain limitation in mod_pagespeed.conf and the machine only has the one ...

Ever since I started using Linux in dualboot with Windows I noticed that when I rebooted the machine, the time on the other S.O. was wrong, e.g. it was 12:00 on Linux, then I rebooted and on Windows ...

I have laptop running Ubuntu 14.10 and used for watching movies from my server. I've installed vlc player but faced with the bug: At approximately 40 minute (can ve different for various videofiles) ...

I got a new computer downloaded Steam, and purchased Portal, and downloaded it to both my old computer and my new computer. It launched instantly on my old computer, but, refused to launch on the new ...

Before buying NAS, I try to use FTP to transfer data from the office to my home.
The computer at home has two user; the first one is called user and the other one is called admin.
The FTP server is ...